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Airtel signs pact with Nokia

NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel on Tuesday announced the signing of a $400 million contract with Nokia to upgrade and expand its networks in eight Airtel circles and deploy a pan-India WAP solution across its networks. Under the three-year contract, Nokia will provide services and expand Airtel networks to cover all towns and cities in the eight telecom circles of Mumbai, Maharashtra and Goa, Gujarat, Bihar (including Jharkhand), Orissa, Kolkata, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh (including Chhattisgarh). The network monitoring operations will be carried out from Nokia's state-of-the-art "global network services centre" in Chennai.

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